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by Henry Smith
WITH BACH BATCH of mail
comes many letters from all parts
of the country- However, no letter
has drawn as much attention this
week as the letter received from
Norman Johnston, Ludington senior during the fall and spring semesters. Norm suggests that Life
print a new column, "Summering
with the Winter Students." Any
body else have any suggestions? If
so, address them to the editor, Central Michigan Life. All suggestions
will be considered.
WE AT CENTRAL have heard
much of the absent-minded professor but never did we think the lad
would arrive on our campus. However, he was noticed on the campus
one week ago today. Not mentioning any names, here's the story.
Americans are particularly conscious of the clock. We are always
in a hurry. No doubt this incident
would have been avoided had it not
been for a seven a. m. class. The
instructor was awakened by his
wife at a few minutes later than
usual. A quick glance at the clock
brought a sudden leap for the personal grooming and dressing. Another glance and breakfast was finished. A final glance and the instructor was sitting behind his
desk in a room in Warriner Hall.
After five minutes of patient waiting (with a few nods in between)
the professor decided that he would
give a snappy quiz as a cure for his
students being so very late. Then
came the dawn—today was Wednesday! This was the day the class
did not meet. "Gad! Oh, well, I'll
keep it to myself." ZZZZzzzzzz
FACULTY NOTES—Dr. Charles
L. Anspach, college president,
spoke on the Michigan State Capitol lawn July 26. The occasion was
the second in a series of Sunday
evening church programs sponsored by Lansing churches. . . .30
faculty members attended a weekend outing recently at H i g gi n s
Lake. They were guests of Russell
Martin. The outing is an annual
affair.
Workshop Group
Has 33 Enrolled
With more than a week past in
the second summer session the Elementary Workshop is well under
way with each participant pursuing
his special teaching problem.
At the end of the first session
many teachers returned to their
respective homes with numerous
problems solved and with themselves better equipped for the coming school year. Of the 60 persons
enrolled in the course during the
first session, 22 remained for the
second term course. Besides the
original members there are 12 new
students. The students find that the
course is set-up so that democracy
is not only taught but experienced.
The students of the program take
time off from the work of solving
their own individual problems to
attend many college sponsored activities, as well as social functions
planned by the group.
C. C. Richtmeyer, head of the
mathematics department, has just
returned from Toronto, where he
attended the international convention of the Lions. With him was
Harry Phillips, flight instructor in
the local air school.
Central Michigan Life
VOLUME 23
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1942
NUMBER 32
Two Faculty Members
Answer Service Calls
Edwin Ellis And Theodore Cook Leave To Join Woodrow
Hunter; Successors Unnamed.
Two members of the Central
Michigan College faculty joined the
nation's armed forces last week.
Edwin Ellis, college publicity director, left here Tuesday for army
induction at Fort Custer, and Theodore Cook, instructor in the physics
department, departed Wednesday
for the Naval Communications
school at Harvard University in
Cambridge, Mass., where he will be
commissioned an E n s i g n in. the
Naval Reserve. Last February,
Woodrow W. Hunter, a social science instructor, became the first
Central faculty member to face induction, and Ellis and Cook are the
latest additions into the service.
Edwin Ellis
Ellis, a native of Big Rapids, attended Ferris Institute there and
graduated from Central in 1940. As
a student here, he was active in
publications work; and upon graduation, he joined the editorial staff
of the  Saginaw News.   He  served
Students To Hear
Mrs. Louis E. Hutto
At five p. m. this afternoon in
W355, Mrs. Louis Hutto will review the book "Free as the Wind",
by Atwood, a recent Michigan publication. Mrs. Hutto is a popular
reviewer of books for the women's
clubs of this area.
Dr. Malcolm Filson of the chemistry department reviewed "This
Chemical Age" by William Haynes
last Wednesday. The book, about
chemistry and plastics, is one of
the most readable from a layman's
point of view.
"The greatest discoveries have
been the result of accidents," emphasized Dr. Filson. Examples of
them are aneline dyes and nylon.
In a few years plastics will be the
chief substance in everything we
wear or use.
The speaker showed a varied and
interesting collection of articles
made of plastics. These included
cards, glass, synthetic rubber, and
dishes.
The moving picture, "The Magic
of Modern Plastics," concluded the
discussion.
as head of the Midland bureau for
the Saginaw News until February,
1942, when he returned to Central
as publicity director. May of this
year, he married Gladyce Owens, an
instructor in the Reed City public
schools.
Theodore Cool-
Cook became  a  member  of  the
Central   faculty  in   1938   doing
.,  ,      .  j    under-graduate
work at Battle
Creek and Albion colleges.
He has done
graduate work
at Rice Institute and holds
a master's degree. Cook for-
the  mathematics
Cook
merly taught  in
department here.
Both Ellis and Cook were members of the Central summer school
faculty this year.
War Board
Set Up Here
Committee To Act As Clearing Body For Campus War
Effort.
In order to insure greater unity
and coordination, George N. Lauer,
dean of men, announced Monday
the establishment of a campus War
Board.
The new committee, Chairman
Lauer said, will act as a clearing
body on all materials relating to
the college's war effort and will
also serve as a coordinating committee over other campus war committees. Other college war functions and groups are the committee
on defense, the Navy relief committee, the U.S.O. committee, and the
committee on recruiting programs.
In addition to Lauer, Dr. Cleon
Richtmeyer, Joseph P. Carey, Dr.
E. C. Beck, Dr. E. J. Merrill, George
DePuy and Dr. D. Louise Sharp
serve on the committee's personnel.
Current War Brings Memories
Of Life On Campus 25 Years Ago
by Kathryn Wirth
Twenty-five years ago the Central Normal school campus
thronged with uniformed men. Reveille and retreat echoed through
corridors, and sentries paced the
walks. The gym became an army
barracks lined with cots, and a few
weeks later a hospital emergency
ward for flu-bitten soldiers. College girls could be identified by
high   button   shoes,   bulky    ankle-
length-skirts, and knitting needles.
The fourth Liberty Loan drive was
pushed over the top. And, far from
last and still farther from least,
sugar bowls ceased to adorn boarding house and restaurant tables—
without rationing orders, however.
That was Central during World
War No. 1.
25 Years Later
Now—1942—and    another   world
See CUBBENT WAB Page 6
Prominent Author
Added To College
Lecture Program
Alexander Seversky To Be
Heard On Local Platform
Next Year.
Major Alexander P. Seversky, a
Russian naval officer in the last
war and the author of "Victory
Through Air P o w e r," has been
added to Central Michigan College's student lecture course for the
1942-43 semesters, it was announced
Friday by Dean of Administration
C. C. Barnes.
The exact date has not been chosen yet, but Barnes said that the
noted author and expert on tactics
and strategy of aerial warfare
would appear here during the
spring semester.
Seversky's "Victory Through Air
Power," which criticized the United
Nations for successive aerial defeats in this war, has aroused universal comment. A front-runner
in the field of aviation, the Russian-born lecturer has displayed uncanny foresight in his predictions
of the course of the current war.
Designer of the world's first fully
automatic bombsight, Seversky has
received many high honors both in
his own country and here in United
States.
Kappa Delta Pi Initiates
Seven Students At Dinner
Seven persons were initiated into
the Epsilon Eta Chapter of Kappa
Delta Pi, National Honorary Education Society, at 5:30 on Monday,
July 20, in the Woman's Lounge of
Keeler Union.
The initiates were: Agnes I.
Good, Florence W. Lee, Lucille
Fleming Merrihew, Ha L. Minier,
Helen I. Pattinson, Dorothea M.
Welt, and Leah Margaret Wilde.
Following the initiation, a dinner
was held in the private dining
rooms of Keeler Union from 6:15
to 8:15.
In the after-dinner program Mrs.
Mildred Chisolm acted as toast-
mistress. The program consisted
of a welcome to new members by
Marian Van Hoesen; response by
Lucille Fleming Merrihew; and a
vocal solo by Elma Lighter. The
address of the evening was given
by Dr. Bruce Raymond, visiting instructor from Hope College.
Thirty-five members and initiates attended.
College Students See Show
Presented On Small Stage
A tiny stage was the scene of the
presentation of the puppet show
given by Martin and Olga Stevens,
Monday, July 20.
Mr. and Mrs. Stevens stated that
they made all of the stage settings,
marionettes and furniture. It takes
them three years to complete one
show and it is for this reason that
they have only four plays.
Institute
Has Meets
In Sloan
Students Urged To Attend
Programs; Sessions For Three
Weeks.
Initial sessions of the Michigan
Child Guidance Institute conference opened here last week on the
campus and will continue for three
weeks.
Intended as a diagnosis agency,
the Institute is manned presently
by a psychologist and two psychiatry social workers but additional
workers of the field are expected
later. Members of the staff here
now are Robert Whiteley, psychologist, and Mrs. Mary Mulvey and
Mrs. Winifred Litchfield, social
workers. The first week here was
simply an orientation period,
Whiteley said, while the second
week is spent in studying local
cases. The third week the cases,
will be evaluated by Dr. Richard L.
Jenkins, director of clinical service
for the Institute, and his staff.
The Institute, which is under the
auspices of the University of Michigan and the state legislature, annually makes a visit of Michigan
school teachers administering advice in child guidance. This year,
howevre, the trips were cancelled
due to the rubber shortage. Instead
the group is spending short encampments at the various state
teacher's colleges, greeting teachers
at summer session and embryonic
instructors working for degrees.
Whiteley said that cases presented by local social workers will
be discussed under concealed identity. Central students are invited
to aid the staff in planning a treatment program for all cases. Individual conferences may be scheduled with the unit by contacting
Whiteley at the Lucy A. Sloan Residence Hall.
All Central students are urged to
attend the program.
National Fraternity
Initiates Seven
At a Den party Friday evening,
July 31, Sigma Delta chapter of
Sigma Tau Delta, national honorary E n g 1 i s h fraternity, initiated
seven new members.
The seven initiates were June
Jacques of Saginaw, Florence Has-
lip of Essexville, Ha Minier of Cadillac, Verona Mayville of Mt. Pleasant, Kenneth Vance of Pewamo,
Ethel Zipp of Saginaw, and Helen
Sikkens of Carp Lake. Three of
these will return in the fall: June
Jacques, Verona Mayville, and Kenneth Vance.
Officers in charge were Grace
Niggeman, acting president, and
Betty Bonnell, secretary. Henry
Smith of St. Johns, Eleanor James
of Manistee, and Laura Shelby of
Petoskey were in charge of entertainment.
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